I trimmed the hedge this weekend. It started gently enough – a few snips here and there – but then the red mist descended. Before long, our hedge had lost over a metre in height and I had “reclaimed” some excellent sticks that will be great supports for the tomatoes this year. I’ve a worrying [...]
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April
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherry red, euonymus, gardeners delight, grass, irish eyes, nasturtium, ornamental grass, Pennesetum Cream Falls, prairie, red pixey, strawberries, syringa, tomatoes on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spring
Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Finally – after having a winter worthy of actually being called winter, spring is beginning to show it’s face around these parts.
Early in 2008 my mum gave us a clump of snowdrop bulbs from her garden. We planted them underneath the holly tree and slowly forgot about them. Now, admittedly, we have dug over the area [...]
2009 Happy New Year !!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bird box, garden, grow your own, home made, raised bed, vegetables on January 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Okay – so we didn’t quite manage to keep the blog up to date last year but we’re determined to do better this year. We’ve put the little bit of time off we’ve had over the Christmas period to good use and made a start in the garden. Last year’s veg trials were generally a [...]
Get a load of these …
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Or more precisely GOT a load of these. Despite one of the worst summers in living memory (well, since last year anyway) look what those twelve little plants turned up. This was about two days picking and there are plenty more where they came from …
So – the lessons learnt from this year. Well, the [...]
You “ahhh” what you eat …
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After months (seemingly) of intense and unrelenting pressure from all sides, I finally gave in and tipped out one of the pots of potatoes. At least if we came up empty I’d have the satisfaction of being able to say that I had told everyone it was too early. As it was, we ended up [...]
July the 15th … doesn’t rhyme with anything
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
… but it was the day we picked our first runner bean
The fruits of our labour
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The last week or so has made it seem like summer has come to an early end. The last few days have seen more rainfall than we were supposed to get in a whole month – at least the evenings have not been taken up with trips up and down the garden with the watering [...]
Blob update …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beer trap, day lilly, dianthus, funny, fuschia, hardy fuschia, ladybirds, potatoes, runner bean, sex, slug on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A really rotten day at work where nothing seems to go right can easily be lifted by an evening out in our garden where, touch wood, things are all looking up. It’s been a busy old time with so much to record so we’ll let the photographs tell the story.
A visit from the family brought a sweep [...]
Bugs and Slugs
Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everything in the garden is ticking along quite nicely - a little light weeding and lots of running to and fro with the watering can is really all that has been needed of late. We did put some netting around the gooseberries as, one evening, the amount of fruit looked suspiciously less than the night before.
I’ve put down [...]
June update
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The recent spell of rubbish weather forced a brief break from the gardening (and the blog) and brought about a stint of interior decorating. Nothing stops the garden though, so it’s about time for a little bit of an update.
Firstly – the tomatoes have picked themselves up really well. We had a little slug damage [...]
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